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PS/nVision report on PeopleTools 8.5x version has a common error when it is run on Micrsoft Windows platform. The error shown below: ‘Excel interface exception [E:\pt85420a-retail\peopletools\src\psnxl\gridapp.cpp:2172] Microsoft Excel cannot access the file ‘\\PS_HOME\FMS91\DVLP\NVISION\LAYOUT\MHSBS.xnv’. There are several possible reasons: • The file name or path does not exist. • The file is being used by another […]

The best feature of PeopleTools 8.54 is Fluid Interface and you have decided to use it for your PeopleSoft application. You have spent hours and days creating lots of Fluid pages and now trying to access it from your desktop browser. But you don’t see Fluid features in your application. What’s the cause? Below post […]

Datamover is a very powerful tool and access to it should always be controlled especially in PRD environments. In every organization, many users switch departments, roles and responsibilities over a period of time and every once in a while, you should review the security associated with these users to confirm that they don’t have any […]

PeopleSoft developers regularly use PeopleSoft Application Designer to view/modify PeopleTools Objects such as fields, records, pages, components etc. Developer’s login access to Application Designer is controlled by PeopleSoft Security configured in PIA. Depending on user’s role you can grant read/write access or read only access. In both the cases developer should be able to open […]

This is a quick short post for resolution of the datestamp error while running a PS Query. Datestamp errors are quite common when running a PS Query. When you run a PS Query and are prompted to enter the datetime value – many a times you will end up entering a wrong format and you […]

Taskkill ends one or more tasks or processes. You will need taskkill command to troubleshoot issues related to your appserver, webserver domains or database if using Windows Servers as the OS platforms to host your appservers, webservers or database. An example of a real-life issue could be that the appserver domain may give error during the […]

Tasklist command in Windows displays a list of applications and services with their Process ID (PID) for all tasks running on either a local or a remote computer. You will need tasklist command to troubleshoot issues related to your appserver, webserver domains or database if using Windows Servers as the OS platforms to host your appservers, […]

Though this is a common problem – it shows up in a lot of different scenarios. The error is very similar and is “Invalid date in function DateValue. (180,113)” For example, you can try to look at my benefits summary page on Employee Self Service. The date defaults to say 2014/04/20, when you select the […]

One of the most important part of PeopleSoft applcation is to run processes/reports to address the business requirements. All the jobs and processes are run on Process Scheduler but not every PeopleSoft user has access to run the processes. It is governed by the role of the user and security associated with the process/job. User who needs to […]

PeopleSoft can be configured to send emails to users for various purposes like WorkFlow Email, Notify button from PeopleSoft Page, Output of PS Job or any other process etc. All these email are send by a SMTP server, details of which are configured in PeopleSoft Application Server and Process Scheduler Configuration Files. If you are […]